Prayer Circle

A Message from Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq

Aanakasaap Illua - Where Peace begins.

The old people say that you are worth coming home to.

They say that when you come home to yourself you will find your roots thus you can walk tall and powerful as you are meant to be for times and times to come.

The old people say that only by melting the ice in the heart of Man, Man will have a chance to change and begin using his knowledge wisely.

And when the ice in our heart has been melted we begin to heal and we will find peace within our self.

Due to the colonization most of the Greenlanders have lost their traditions and ceremonies and their language, become afflicted by social diseases of addictions and family violence which has lead to to) be one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

Aanakasaap Illua will bring support to those people who are in need.

It will bring healing, social healing to those who have been most afflicted and will allow these people to stand tall and powerful again as they were meant to be from the very beginning.

Aanakasaap Illua offers rehabilitation, vocational training and social integration of the people. The healing centre is directed towards the needs of Greenlanders, and yet it is open to all nations of the world.

Aanakasaap Illua Center is also an agricultural centre, anything which grows has to be imported and flown in to Greenland from far distances.

Aanakasaap Illua aims to raise self sufficency of growing food in Greenland using the most modern ways of growing food such as aquaponics and raising fish and permaculture.

Aanakasaap Illua is also a place which welcomes visitors to find the inner peace within themselves in a hotel which offers the ancient cultures of Greenland, offers the midnight sun, the northern lights but most importantly an untouched nature - the most ancient crust of earth where the energy of mother earth is as it was born.

For more than a year now at IceWisdom with a growing number of dedicated volunteers we have worked to make this vision in to a reality.

The Technical University in Munich in Germany have predesigned Aanakasaap Illua and we are now coming to the point that we need to make that design in to reality.

Thus we are asking for help and assistance from you.

We at IceWisdom have the intention of inviting a thousand donations of 100 Euro each

which will begin the process of creating Aanakasaap Illua -

a healing centre for the nation of Greenland and a healing centre for the nations of the world. Where peace begins.

Would you like to be part of this vision?

Oona Soleil Leibundgut
IceWisdom Executive Director
Personal Assistant to Angaangaq

www.icewisdom.com

 

Message from Sabina Ijaz in Canada

Great to hear that Yoshimaru-san and Rica-san's trip to Guatemala was asuccess.

I am happy to let you know that Dave opened the box of clay figures inside the Turtle Lodge, and we were so pleased, excited and overwhelmed by them.
We placed them in the different directions as per Yoshimaru's instructions and have been sharing their significance and the story of them with all that enter the Turtle Lodge.

We are very grateful for the support they are bringing to the work we are doing.

We keep you all in our thoughts and prayers. Thank you for this precious gift.

Sabina Ijaz

Message from Susan Norrie in Sydney

 

 

TRANSIT© SUSAN NORRIE 2011
Production credits

Concept/Edit : Susan Norrie 

Camera: Rodo Izumiyama
Journalist: Yoichi Teraishi
Camera assistant/Interpreter: Kumpei Miyata
Translating: David McIntyre, Rodo Izumiyama
Editing: Wayne Love
Interview with: Yoshimaru Higa

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Since 2004, I have been working on projects in conjunction with the Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA), a space centre that has been in operation since the 1960s.


Based on the island of Tanegashima - located in southern Japan where the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean merge - the space centre is adjacent to the active volcano Sakurajima which lies at the tip of Osumi Peninsula. The volcano too was once an island but after an eruption in 1914, it is now connected to the mainland.

After witnessing the oil/gas drilling incident in Porong, East Java (the focus of my video installation HAVOC, presented at the Venice Biennale in 2007), I imagined that a sense of humanity would begin to inform resource exploration and technology - especially in the wake of catastrophic consequences - and, in turn, address issues of exploitation and the precarious balance between the increased demand for natural resources and the plight of indigenous peoples in areas of excavation.


Recent satellites launched from Tanegashima have been specifically designed to monitor world weather patterns, environmental disasters (man-made and natural), greenhouse gases, security networks, defense systems and other communication satellites. Working in collaboration with Japanese specialists, my projects - in light of the recent environmental and humanitarian disasters - suggest there are many indicators and forewarnings that should be changing the ways we think about the world. Strangely - and almost daily - the supernatural, elemental forces of nature seem to be demanding this seismic shift from humans.

Susan Norrie
April 2011

 [Profile of Susan Norrie]

Born 1953, Sydney New SouthWales. Lives and works in Sydney.
Susan Norrie is a Sydney-based artist. She works across media including video,
photography and painting. Her recent projects have focused on intercultural issues. Norrie was one of three artists representing Australia at the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007. In the last 20years she has developed a practice that sees and uses art as a tool for political commentary. The environment, man-made and natural disasters have informed her projects. Recently she has been working in Japan documenting　the environmental satellites that are launched from the Japanese Aerospace　Center on the Island of Tanegashima.

She has exhibited at the Solomon、R Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Tate Modern, Liverpool, UK; KIASMA , Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki;
Art Tower Mito Museum, Japan; MARCO , Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain;
ICC, Tokyo; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany;　Neur Kunstverein, Berlin; Nationgalerie
un Hamburger Banhof, Berlin; Het　Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam; Futura,
Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague;　Cinema Capacete 1V, Rio de Janeiro;
Edinburgh International Festival,　Scotland; Biennale of Sydney; and Melbourne

 

Messege from Mr. David Courchene in Canada

MESSAGE TO JAPAN

 

David Courchene (Nii Gaani Aki Inini – Leading Earth Man)

Anishnabe Nation, Eagle Clan

Turtle Lodge, Manitoba, Canada

 

I bring you all Greetings from the sacred lodges of my People, the Anishnabe – we come from what our people refer to as the center of Turtle Island: America. We have a very sacred site known to our People as Manito Api – “Where the Great Spirit Sat”. It is from the sacred site we have evolved with prophecies, visions, laws and teachings that reflect our connection to Spirit and this deep love of the Earth that we have.

At this present time, I am writing these words in front of a Sacred Fire that has been lit for a lodge and ceremony called the Mother Earth Lodge. It is a lodge that honours woman, mothers and Mother Earth.

The Dreamers of our people have confirmed we have entered a time when a New Life is arriving. As this New Life arrives, the Earth will use its natural forces to cleanse the Earth and stop what has been destroying her. If we as humans are going to survive we must reconnect and align ourselves with Spirit and the Land.

Just recently we supported rites of passage for the young boys and the young girls as they made the transition into adulthood. A message came out of the Vision Quest that the young boys went on, as they were brought back to the sacred lands of Manito Api to receive the vision for their life through prayer and fasting.

The young boys were visited by the spirit of woman – the spirit of Mother Earth. They were given the message to honour the sacredness of woman. One young boy became emotional and described the message he received as: “We are nothing compared to the power that the woman has to bring life.”

Man has dishonoured woman; rather than support the gift that the woman has, he has attempted to destroy it with his greed.

When all the men were sitting together to hear the messages that were brought by the ones that went out on the Vision Quest, their faces dropped; it was a wakeup call.

The men returned from the sacred lands to the Turtle Lodge, one of our sacred lodges, where the young girls had been going through their rite of passage in becoming women. As the men returned, the women greeted them and honoured them, despite all that has been done to woman, by welcoming them back into the lodge, which to our People represents the woman.

We need to support rites of passage that will help the young people to become leaders – to become the real agents of change – the initiates reflecting the New Life.

Making a journey to Mt. Fuji – climbing the mountain – is a metaphor for making the journey to a higher level of living. Climbing to the top of the mountain allows us to have greater vision. The higher you go the more you see.

We cannot continue to use energies or technologies that are unsafe and that have the potential to destroy life.

We have to come to terms with what this New Life on Earth will require. We have to come to terms with how we have been treating the Earth. In order to support this New Life that is arriving, we have to be prepared for a much simpler, more sustainable way of living without using technologies and energies that threaten the Earth and our lives.

As the human family, in order to ensure a world that has peace, we must begin by putting the children back into the center of our lives. And we must be prepared to protect the rights that all children are born with. Every child is born with the right to have clean water, clean air, and all that it would need in order to have a good life and a good future. Every child is born with the right to be loved. Every child is born with the right to be told the truth. Every child is born with the right to have a good mother and a good father.

I am in full support of your journey to Mt. Fuji because it represents all our journeys in seeking peace. We will find peace when we find it in ourselves – when we reach the spirit of our hearts.

We must support each other as we join in the collective, supporting a vision that brings us together without relinquishing our individual identities.

I realize that the People of Japan are facing incredible challenges because of recent events. It will require a strong spirit of determination and perseverance in maintaining a spiritual connection and a continued reliance on the Earth to provide what we need to live, including the Mother’s love and connection that she brings to us.

We will continue to offer our support with continued offerings and prayer to the Spirit to intervene on our behalf. As Indigenous Peoples we have always relied on the lodges and the ceremonies that we have evolved with as an ancient People. We remain committed and faithful to the power of Spirit – Spirit to our People has always been reflected in Nature and in the land.

It is our connection to the Spirit that will ensure our survival and future.

 

Messege from Ms. Ann Rosencranz

2011.6.17

Hello dear Yoshimaru and Rica Higa

I pray you are all well

I just spoke with Grandmother Rita Blumenstein in Alaska and she wanted me to let you know that she is currently developing a medicine for radiation sickness with a doctor and several students. They are making a tincture from kelp. She will let me know if it will be appropriate for you to contact the doctor directly. We will keep you informed.

Also she wanted to share a few words for the people at the gathering in Mt Fuji on Sunday: “God is your best friend- Talk to him!”

With much respect and love to you,
Ann Rosencranz

Messege from Mr. Mohan Rai in Nepal

Dear Yoshimaru and Rica Higa,

 

 

I am so happy to learn that you are going to organize a great ceremony in Mount Fuji on June 18th 2011.

 

I am more than pleased to participate in the ceremony through the message on behalf of healers and spirits from Nepali (shamans and people). I am sending our hearts and energies to keep world in peace and awarness. We must remember our friends who have lost their life by the several catastophies, we should pray their departed souls to rest in peace and calm. At the same time we should pray to our heartifing mothers :-

Birth Mother = Creator of our generation

Mother Earth = Freedom

Mother Ganges = Lives (water)

 

To provide the power and shakti to bring changes of minds of the beurocracy, government and tachnology not to produce atomic things whic has been damaging several places such as Bhopal in India, Chernobyl (ex-USSR and Russia now)  and recently in Japan. All the rich and powerful nation must closedown this kind of products immediately.

 

Om Shanti, Om Shanti, Om Shanti..

 

Mohan Rai.

Music for Life

( a message from Germany for the special ceremony at Mt. Fuji on June 18)

 

We are belonging to the big family of life on Earth.

Our family needs us human beings.

Our brothers and sisters, the stones, plants, animal, the fire, water and wind they need our human spirit.

There are things only human beings can give, like our music, our arts, our good thoughts, our conscious decision for “the Good”, our recognition of love, of being loved.

In 2007, we had this ceremony on Volcano Stromboli in the Mediterranean Sea. We received powerful signs that the medicine we have given in the volcano – a golden bowl – was accepted and can now unfold its healing.

It is said that the water on Earth came from the countless eruptions including water vapor from the volcanos in the Earth’s early time.

Thus, the Volcanos gave birth to the big waters, where all our lives begun.

It is good to go there again and remember the immemorial past of all of us.

It is good to pray there.

 

On Saturday, 18^th we will be with a circle of about 30 people and lead by our elders – Hugo-Bert and Inge Eichmüller – at our site in Cana, Toscany.

At our “Biotope of Humaneness”. We will just have finished a time of fasting, contemplation and listening of 1 week.

It is the same site to where we would like to invite you to come for our Spirit Vision Dance in early August this year.

 

Also I would very much like to ask your support for our “Music for Life” concert at the next conference for biodiversity in New-Delhi in October 2012.

Our goal there is to bring music inside the conference venue – as medicine.

There is a website available in English: http://www.oneearthorchestra.de/

Please spread this, send this information to anyone you think could be interested to know about this.

We need lots of help to realize this vision.

We need people in India to help us.

We need financial support to pay the costs of the musicians.

We need people that follow this vision with their hearts and who wish us success.

We want to give an impulse of hope and power for the love of human beings towards our relatives, the plants and animals.

 

All the best,

 

Uwe Friedel

Message from Ms.Angela Babel

Meeting Climate Change

by Melting the Ice in One’s Heart

 

Nowhere on earth is the temperature rising as quickly as it is in Greenland. Since the 1980’s, the average near-surface air temperature has generally increased by three degrees Celsius. In the meantime, the ice has melted so much so, that fire can once again be made with local Greenlandic wood.

 

However, according to the well-known Eskimo Shaman Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, the ice has actually been increasing someplace else—in the hearts of man. In order to counteract man’s escalating complacency, Angaangaq, together with other Shamans from around the world, held a Fire Ceremony in July of 2009. Photographer Sven Nieder, together with author Angela Babel, documented this special gathering at the northernmost point of the earth in a coffee-table book.

 

“One day, when the world needs it most, the Sacred Fire will return to the people of the high north.” Climate change seems to have made this ancient Greenlandic prophecy come true. Where, for ages, there was only ice, bushes and trees are once again growing. Each and every day, twenty centimeters of the island’s ice melts away. Local animal’s hunting behaviors have been seriously affected. In order to survive, polar bears have actually been eating one another.

 

One hundred twenty global citizens, among them sixteen Shamans and Elders from numerous continents, answered Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq’s call that summer. They traveled thousands of kilometers to the arctic circle in order to be the mediators between nature and mankind, emphasizing the Elders’ message: “Wake up! Become aware! We do not have any more time to lose! Even though the world has never been as connected as it is today, people are growing farther apart from one another and from nature, exhibiting more and more apathy. They simply accept their eventual destruction, even though a second earth does not exist.”

 

“Earthquakes, Tsunamis, hurricanes…our earth is sending us alarm signals because she is sick and needs help! But we turn a deaf ear and look the other way, pretending not to hear or to see,” says Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa from Zimbabwe. There is no longer any doubt that the inhabitants of the earth will have to adapt themselves to new climate conditions. The Amazon Region will eventually disappear due to the ice-melt.

 

Angaangaq is convinced that mankind will only be able to deal with this cataclysm “when we use our knowledge wisely and our hearts and minds come closer together.”

 

As the United Nations Ambassador of Peace, Dr. Jane Goodall also attended the gathering, “We have poisoned the earth. We breathe bad air and eat bad food. Our children are becoming ill,” says the well-known behavioral scientist. Why? “Because we have forgotten the wisdom of the indigenous people; because we have lost our reverence for nature; because we no longer hear its voice; because our hearts are frozen.”

 

Sven Nieder’s photos capture the vast expanse of the Greenlandic landscape. In portraits of the Elders, he documents their deep concern over the earth’s alarming condition. Angela Babel’s text complements the photos with a consolidated and touching description of the course of events during the Shamanic Ceremony. The book comes full circle with a greeting from Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq and an essay from author Dr. Christoph Quarch.

Rica Higa

 

Shaman Rica Higa from Japan is thirty-eight, lives in Okinawa and regularly travels through her home country with her husband, Yoshimaru, also a shaman, to say prayers and hold ceremonies at specifically selected sites.

 

‘With our prayers and our ceremonies, we hope to restore the world to its equilibrium again. We travel to the coasts, to the mountains and the lakes – but mostly, to atomic power stations. The reason for that is that Yoshimaru once had a revelation – that a natural disaster will set off an accident at a nuclear power plant which in turn will have unimaginable political and economic changes in its wake and that these will ultimately lead to a third world war.

 

We pray that this does not happen. We pray so that people wake up and recognise the dangers that they themselves have invoked. We pray to the gods that no disaster might occur. We pray that they might protect us until we are in a position to ward off this danger ourselves. And then we tell of what we experience at ceremonies in other countries and how people on other continents become involved for a restoration of the balance of our world. We are only at the beginning and our audience is growing only slowly. But we believe that we are working for a better world.

 

Many ancient prophecies from our ancestors say that Mother Earth will change. Cold regions, they say, will become tropical areas. If /When these prophecies become reality, the messages from our ancestors can help us to survive the change. So that’s why it’s important to preserve their knowledge. If we will begin to connect with one another, if we attain a greater awareness of the position the world is in and co-operate instead of fighting one another, then we will succeed together in altering this world, our Mother Earth, for the better.’

 

A New Year Greeting from Mr. Uwe Friedel

“For our circle the new year is a year of new beginning. We hope that soon we can meet more often and more in depth with people who sincerely care for life on Earth.

We wish to all of you around this beautiful home planet a year in which you can understand how you can contribute to the evolution of humaneness.

We wish that you find many, many people with whom to share the good and bad moments, thoughts, prayers, songs, food and drink, sunshine, rain and all other things that nourish our body, soul, mind and spirit.

May you be healthy and protected and understand the blessings that surround all of us.

Uwe Friedel

Germany

 

 

A New Year Message from Ms.Elizabeth Araujo

A New Year Message from Ms.Elizabeth Araujo、wife of Don Alejandro Cirilo Oxlaj of Guatemala

 

Hello Yoshimaru and Rica Higa and friends in Japan.

Greetings from Guatemala and a Happy New Year to you, may all your dreams come true in the New Year.

The year is gone and we were not able to do the gathering here in Guatemala as we wanted. I have doubts if 2011 will be different, the money the President had assigned for the gathering had to be used for fixing the roads after the heavy winter.  We had one of the volcanoes close to the capital city erupting and close the airport for 10 days, it caused a lot of cleanup work, then we had 2 hurricanes, and 7 months of rain, that caused a lot of damage to the roads.  

 

Let's see what the New Year brings.